From September 13, 2006 to December 26, 2008 by proxy, Dave Sim kept up a daily blog called The Blog & Mail. It came to an end because his computer seized up and he decided to go back to his electric typewriter. Claude Flowers is presently inventorying the files recovered from the dead computer's harddrive.

Thursday, September 14, 2006

Dave Sim's blogandmail #2 (September 14th, 2006)

UBER-YAHOO MARGARET “MAGGS” LISS IS IN RECEIPT OF THE LAST BATCH OF CEREBUS NOTEBOOKS AND, IN HER NOCTURNAL AND WEEKEND YAHOO IDENTITY AS CEREBUSFANGIRL (AS OPPOSED TO HER “MAD CHEMICAL ENGINEER” CIVILIAN IDENTITY AT TECH ETCH) (NOW APPEARING ON YOUR MONITOR WITH THE UBIQUITOUS “SOMEWHERE IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSSETTS” SUBHEADING), HAS BEGUN OR IS ALMOST DONE SCANNING THEM.

A good example of how unbelievably efficient is Margaret is that the last batch of notebooks came back with their respective computer disks before Gerhard could get back from vacation and post this first week’s worth of BLOG items. I’m now awaiting word whether she wants to take a break or dive right into scanning the Archive proper starting with all the pre-Cerebus documents.

SOMEWHERE DOWN THE LINE SHE AND HER TEAM OF CRACK VOLUNTEERS (NO, THEY AREN’T ON CRACK, THEY’RE ALL JUST GOOD AT WHAT THEY DO) WILL BE PRODUCING A COMMERCIAL PACKAGE ON DVD FOR CONSUMPTION BY…WELL…PRESUMABLY MOSTLY YOU FOLKS, THE DEVOTED CORE CEREBUS READERSHIP (OR AS YOU’RE MORE WIDELY AND POPULARLY KNOWN IN COMIC-BOOK STORES AROUND THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD: “THAT WEIRD GUY/CHICK WHO ACTUALLY LIKES THAT CEREBUS CRAP.”) WE WILL KEEP YOU POSTED AS BULLETINS ARE ISSUED FROM THE CEREBUSFANGIRLCAVE. LATEST WORD AS OF 8 SEPTEMBER IS THAT THE MATERIAL IS ALL SCANNED AND NOW JUST NEEDS TO BE TWEAKED AND NEATENED UP A BIT. ANYONE WHO HAS BEEN TO THE www.cerebusfangirl.com WEBSITE KNOWS THAT MAGGS NEVER DOES ANYTHING SLOPPILY.

SAY DOES THIS ALL-CAPS FORMAT LOOK LIKE I’M YELLING AT YOU OR DOES IT JUST GIVE EVERYTHING A NICE “THIS CALLS FOR AN EMERGENCY!” QUALITY? COME TO THINK OF IT NEVER MIND EITHER ONE IS FINE WITH ME!

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TONIGHT IS THE DOUG WRIGHT AWARDS IN TORONTO. THE LEAD-IN EVENT IS SETH INTERVIEWING CHESTER BROWN AND I’M HOPING TO GET SOME PHOTOS AND MAYBE EVEN SOME FOOTAGE OF BOTH EVENTS. I’M ALSO GOING WITH JOHN AND SIU TO A FILM AT THE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL THIS MORNING, MOSTLY JUST FOR THE EXPERIENCE OF ACTUALLY WATCHING A MOVIE ON A WEEKDAY MORNING.

PLUG! ACADEMY X (ACX) VOLUMES 1 AND 2 WRITTEN BY ADAM CADRE AND DRAWN BY ROB WHEELER. ROB SENT ME A PRINT-OUT OF THIS ON-LINE STRIP (260 PAGE SO FAR) AND IT’S REALLY QUITE GOOD. JIM SHOOTER GOT HIS START AT AGE 13 (YOU READ THAT RIGHT) DRAWING SUPERMAN AND LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES STORIES ON NOTEPAPER AND SENDING THEM TO MORT WEISINGER AT DC WHO SAW THAT THE STORIES WERE “ALL THERE” AND JUST NEEDED TO BE SENT TO ARTISTS LIKE JOHN FORTE AND CURT SWAN AS BLUEPRINTS. ACADEMY X IS SORT OF A STEP UP FROM THAT IN THAT ROB JUST NEEDS TO DEVELOP AN INK FINISH TO MATCH HIS LAYOUT AND COMPOSITION SKILLS AND THEN WATCH OUT, WORLD! AND ADAM CADRE’S STRAIGHT-AHEAD SCRIPT MAKES YOU LONG FOR THE DAYS WHEN THE X-MEN WAS, YOU KNOW, COHERENT. SIX ON-LINE ISSUES SO FAR. I SENT ROB A LETTER AUGUST 30 TO HAVE HIM POST DETAILS HERE SO HOPEFULLY HE SHOULD BE TURNING UP ANY MINUTE NOW. AT LEAST THREE LAUGH-OUT LOUD LINES AND HEAVY ON THE “AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED?”

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